Theoretical fables : the pedagogical dream in contemporary Latin American fiction /

Alicia Borinsky argues that the contemporary Latin American novel does not just ingeniously dismantle the referential claims of the more traditional novel; it offers a postmodern version of the lessons taught by fiction.Latin American fiction, perhaps the most inventive literature of recent decades,...

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Bibliografische gegevens
Hoofdauteur: Borinsky, Alicia
Formaat: Licensed eBooks
Taal:Engels
Gepubliceerd in: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press 1993.
Reeks:Penn studies in contemporary American fiction.
Online toegang:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt173zmq8
Inhoudsopgave:
  • An apprenticeship in reading : Macedonia Fernández
  • Taming the reader : Jorge Luis Borges
  • Intelligence and its neighbors : Gabriel García Márquez
  • Literature as risk : Julio Cortázar
  • A poetics of misencounters : Adolfo Bioy Casares
  • Is there style without gender? : Manuel Puig
  • The lucidity of inaction : María Luisa Bombal
  • Closing the book--dogspeech : José Donoso
  • Overstaying my welcome : conclusions.